B4347 crash in Herefordshire on 7 October 2015 at 12:40 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender and a Mini One were involved in a crash on the B4347 in Herefordshire at 12:40 on Wednesday 7 October 2015. The 50-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Defender and the 52-year-old male driver of the Mini One were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2015
- Wednesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Defender and Mini One
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01113, longitude -2.91523, in the HR2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522E503957
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4347
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 734 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 November 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the B4347 in Herefordshire, 19 November 1989
734 m awayRef 1989220511043
Slight
Car crash on the B4347 in Herefordshire, 11 September 1989
868 m awayRef 1989220509041
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B4347 in Herefordshire, 30 September 2005
871 m awayRef 200522EB33559
Fatal
Car crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 12 November 1983
968 m awayRef 1983220511009
Serious
Bus crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 1 May 1988
1.3 km awayRef 1988220505002
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 28 December 2015
1.3 km awayRef 2015220039154
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini One)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201522E503957 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Herefordshire road accident statistics for 2015.